01 n. A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
pl.
Corpora ((-pō̇*rȧ))
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1.
A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
Phrases & compounds
Corpus callosum —
the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.
Corpus Christi —
a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
Corpus delicti —
the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.
Corpus luteum —
the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.
Corpus striatum —
a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.